“Language is a shared and sharing part of a culture that cares little about formal classifications and much about vitality and connection, for culture itself perishes in purity or isolation, which is the deadly wages of perfection. Like bread and love, language is shared with others. And human beings share a tradition. There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.” CultureLanguageSocietyDiversity Book:Myself with Others: Selected Essays Source: Myself with Others: Selected Essays
“Yo no soy mexicano. Yo no soy gringo. Yo no soy chicano. No soy gringo en USA y mexicano en Mexico. Soy chicano en todas partes. No tengo que asimilarme a nada. Tengo mi propia historia.” CultureImmigrationUs HistoryMéxicoMexican AmericanBorderChicanoCarlos FuentesFronteraMexican American HistoryMexicanoMexico UsLa Frontera De Cristal Author:Carlos Fuentes
“Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.” HardYoungCultureHard WorkIntelligentBraveContraryGrandmotherMexicoMy GrandmotherWidowsMachoIntelligent Women Author:Carlos Fuentes
“I am a Mexican. The United States lived seventy-five years with the one party system in Mexico - the PRI - without batting an eyelid, never demanding democracy of Mexico. Democracy came because Mexicans fought for democracy and made a democracy out of our history, our possibilities, our perspectives. Democracy is not something that can be exported like Coca-Cola. It has to be bred from the inside, according to the culture, the conditions of each country.” CountryCulturePartyDemocracyPossibilityPerspectiveMexican Author:Carlos Fuentes
“Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.” CultureConnectionsSeparation Author:Carlos Fuentes
